RESEARCH HIGLIGHTS

• Identification of the neo-tectonic landforms using river morphometry in the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya
• Developed a chronology of neo-tectonic events using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and ¹⁴C dating.
• Reconstruction of the palaeo-climate of the region using geochemical data

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Sedimentology
• Fluvial Geomorphology and Morphotectonics using Remote Sensing and GIS
• Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Methods
• Development and Applications of ¹⁴C, ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al dating methods

RESEARCH and TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 10 years

• Assistant Professor, NEHU  Sep 2023 to Present
• Scientist-B, IUAC, New Delhi Aug 2019 to Sep 2023
• Senior Research Fellow (SRF),  Jul 2015 to Jul 2019 
  Department of Earth Sciences, IISER Kolkata
• Junior Research Fellow (JRF), Jul 2013 to Jul 2015
  Department of Earth Sciences, IISER Kolkata

AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS

• Young Scientist Award, 2023 given by ICTP and IAEA on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Dating for Heritage and Forensic Sciences.
• Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)- International Travel Support (ITS), 2023 to attend 17th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, June 2023 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Travel Support to attend 20th INQUA Congress, July 2019 (Dublin, Ireland)

COURSES TAUGHT

Geomorphology and Geodynamics, Sedimentology, Geoinformatics, Quaternary Geology, Climatology, Tectonics.

GEOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCES

• Geological Field Training near and around Chitrakoot to acquaint with various geological structures and lithological features during my M.Sc.
• Structural study of the ultramylonites and B.I.F. bands along with the structural mapping of the B.I.F. bands in Bundelkhand Precambrian terrain around Babina, Jhansi district (U.P.), India, during M.Sc.
• Lithologs preparation and facies identification in Tons River basin during M.Sc. dissertation.
• Mapping of alluvial fan and fluvial terraces in North Bengal, East Sikkim and South Sikkim. Lithologs were prepared and samples for OSL dating were collected during PhD.
• Similar kind of field work was also done in foreland of Bhutan Himalayas.
• Lithofacies identification and sampling for OSL dating was done in different river basins of Tamil Nadu to reconstruct past flood events.
• ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al sample collection in the Aravalli to understand the neotectonics if the region

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Windows, MS Office, ArcGIS, Erdas Imagine, Sigma Plot, CorelDraw, QGIS, ISOPLOT, Iolite

INSTRUMENTS HANDELED

• LesxygSmart OSL/TL Reader
• LexsygResearch OSL/TL Reader
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS)
• Laser Ablation High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (LA-HR-ICP-MS)
• X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)

Publications

Full Papers

1. Singh, A.K., Jaiswal, M.K., Pattanaik, J.K. and Dev, M., 2016. Luminescence chronology of alluvial fan in North Bengal, India: Implications to tectonics and climate. Geochronometria, 43(1), pp.102-112.
2. Singh, A.K., Pattanaik, J.K. and Jaiswal, M.K., 2017. Late Quaternary evolution of Tista River terraces in Darjeeling-Sikkim-Tibet wedge: Implications to climate and tectonics. Quaternary International. 443, pp.132-142.
3. Das, S.S., Singh, A.K. and Singh, N., 2017. Provenance of bar-top sediments at Tons river near Allahabad. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 89(5), pp.503-510.
4. Shukla, T., Mehta, M., Jaiswal, M.K., Srivastava, P., Dobhal, D.P., Nainwal, H.C. and Singh, A.K., 2018. Late Quaternary glaciation history of monsoon-dominated Dingad basin, central Himalaya, India. Quaternary Science Reviews, 181, pp.43-64.
5. Mahadev, Singh, A.K. and Jaiswal, M.K., 2019. Application of luminescence age models to heterogeneously bleached quartz grains from flood deposits in Tamilnadu, southern India: Reconstruction of past flooding. Quaternary International.  513, pp. 95-106.
6. Shah, R.A., Achyuthan, H., Lone, A.M., Kumar, S., Kumar, P., Sharma, R., Amir, M., Singh, A.K. and Dash, C., 2020. Holocene palaeoenvironmental records from the high-altitude Wular Lake, Western Himalayas. The Holocene, 30(5), pp.733-743.
7. Dash, C., Jaiswal, M.K., Pati, P., Patel, N.K., Singh, A.K. and Shah, R.A., 2020. Fluvial response to Late Quaternary sea level changes along the Mahanadi delta, east coast of India. Quaternary International, 553, pp.60-72.
8. J. Blinkhorn, H. Achyuthan, M. Jaiswal, and A.K. Singh, 2020. The first dated evidence for Middle-Late Pleistocene fluvial activity in the central Thar Desert. Quaternary Science Reviews, 250, p.106656.
9. Singh, S., Singh, A.K.*, Kumar, P. and Jaiswal, M.K., 2021. Morphotectonic analysis of the Bihar River, Madhya Pradesh, India. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 87(1), pp.163-174.
10. Pattanaik, J.K., Singh, A., Kumar, H., Shah, S.S., Semwal, P., Naik, M.S., Jaiswal, M.K., Banerjee, A., Nainwal, H.C. and Shankar, R., 2022. Luminescence chronology of Late Quaternary palaeo-lake deposits from the Upper Alaknanda Basin, Uttarakhand, India: Implication to palaeoclimate and depositional settings. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 227, p.105079.
11. Singh, A.K., Manna, I., Kumar, P., Dawar, A., Kumar, P. and Murari, M.K., 2022. A new and effective method for quartz-feldspar separation for OSL and CRN dating. Quaternary Geochronology, 72, p.101315.
12. Narzary, B., Singh, A.K., Malik, S. and Jaiswal, M.K., 2022. Luminescence chronology of the Sankosh river terraces in the Assam-Bhutan foothills of the Himalayas: Implications to climate and tectonics. Quaternary Geochronology, 72, p.101364.
13. Mahadev, Jaiswal, M.K., Shivsager, V., Singh, S., Anbarasu, K. and Singh, A.K., 2022. Late quaternary evolution of lower Kaveri and adjoining river basins in Tamil Nadu, Southern India: A combined approach using remote sensing and optical dating of fluvial records. Environmental Challenges, 9, p.100595.
14. Narzary, B., Singh, A.K., Malik, S. and Jaiswal, M.K., 2023. Reply to the comments by Dr. Janusz Olszak on" Luminescence chronology of the Sankosh river terraces in the Assam-Buthan foothills of the Himalayas: Implications to climate and tectonics" by Narzary et al.(2022) Quaternary Geochronology 72, 101364. Quaternary Geochronology, 77, p.101454.

Book Chapters

1. Singh, N., Chakraborty, E., Shekhar, S., Singh, A.K., Kumar, P., Gaur, M.K., Kumar. R., Shukla, A., Rajendra K., Deshmukh B., Sharma M.C., Chopra, S., Singh, Y., Singh, R.P., 2020. Sand Dunes Morphology and Migration in Shyok Valley, Ladakh Himalaya, India. (Book chapter Accepted in Taylor and Francis)
2. Singh S., Singh, A.K., Jaiswal, M.K. and Singh, S.K., 2021. The application of Morphometric Parameters in River watershed management: A case study of Rihand River, India. Book Chapter in “Geo-information Technology in Earth Resources Monitoring and Management” by Nova Science Publishers, (USA)
3. Singh, A.K. and Kumar, P., 2022. Application of Cosmogenic Radionuclides in the Quaternary Sciences Using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Book Chapter in “Springer Climate: Science, Policies and Conflicts of Climate Change”

CONFERENCES

Oral Presentation

1. 17th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, June 2023 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
   “Climate and Neo-Tectonics Imprints on the Evolution of Late Quaternary Terraces in the Tista River Basin, Darjeeling Sikkim Himalaya”
   Atul K Singh and Manoj K Jaiswal
2. 4th Workshop on Luminescence Dating and Applications, Feb, 2023 (IISER Kolkata)
   “A new and effective method for quartz-feldspar separation for OSL and CRN dating”
   Atul Kumar Singh, Ishita Manna, Pavitra Kumar, Anit Dawar, Pankaj Kumar and Madhav Krishna Murari
3. National Workshop on Chronological Systematics and their applications in Earth sciences, April, 2022 (IUAC, New Delhi)
   “A New and Effective Method for Quartz-Feldspar Separation for OSL and CRN dating” Atul K Singh
4. The study of decadal-scale droughts and mega-droughts in semi-arid tracts of India and North America: An approach combining paleoclimate/paleoenvironmental investigations, climate modeling, and community engagement, 2019 (IISER Mohali)
   “Role of Climate and Tectonics in the Evolution of Late Quaternary Terraces in the Tista River Basin.”
   Atul K Singh
5. Quaternary Climate: Recent Findings and Future Challenges, 2016 (NIO, Goa)
   “Luminescence chronology of fluvial terraces in Eastern Himalayas: Implications to tectonics and climate” Atul K. Singh, Jitendra K. Pattanaik and Manoj K. Jaiswal
6. Convergence, 2016 (IISER, Kolkata)
   “Late Quaternary evolution of Teesta River terraces in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas.”
   Atul K. Singh, Jitendra K. Pattanaik, Manoj K. Jaiswal and Gagan

Poster Presentation

1. Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Dating for Heritage and Forensic Sciences, May, 2023 (Trieste, Italy)
   “Late Quaternary evolution of piedmont faults in the foreland basin of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya”
   Atul Kumar Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Sundeep Chopra and Manoj Jaiswal
2. 16^th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance (LED), 2021 (Online mode)
   “A new and effective method for quartz-feldspar separation for OSL dating”
   Atul K Singh, I. Manna, P. Kumar, A. Dawar, P. Kumar, M. K. Murari.
3. 20th INQUA Congress, 2019 (Dublin, Ireland)
   “Late Quaternary evolution of fluvial terraces along Tista River in Darjeeling Sikkim Himalayas: Implications to climate and tectonics”
   Atul Kumar Singh and M. K. Jaiswal
4. 9th International Conference on Geomorphology (ICG), 2017 (New Delhi, India)
   “Late Quaternary Evolution of Fluvial Terraces in Middle Tista Valley, Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas: Insight into Palaeoclimate and Tectonics”
   Atul Kumar Singh and M. K. Jaiswal
5. 15^th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance (LED), 2017 (Cape Town, South Africa)
   “Luminescence Chronology of Fluvial Terraces in Middle Tista Valley, Darjeeling-Sikkim-Tibet Wedge, Eastern Himalayas: Implications to Climate and Neo-Tectonics.”
   K. Singh and M. K. Jaiswal.
6. Convergence, 2015 (IISER, Kolkata)
   “Luminescence chronology of alluvial fan in North West Bengal, India
   Atul Singh, C. Goswami, J. Pattnaik, M. Jaiswal
7. Prithvi, 2014 (IIT, Kharagpur)
   “Luminescence chronology of alluvial fan in the eastern Himalaya: Implication to tectonics and climate.”
   Atul Singh, C. Goswami, J. Pattnaik, M. Jaiswal
8. Convergence, 2014 (IISER, Kolakta)
   “Luminescence chronology of alluvial fan in the eastern Himalaya: Implication to tectonics and climate.”
   A. Singh, C. Goswami, J. Pattnaik, M. Jaiswal

 Conference Abstracts

1. International Workshop on “Active tectonics and dating”, 2021 (: Praz-sur-Arly, France)
   “Application of Luminescence Dating to alluvial fans in Eastern Himalayas”
   Chandreyee Chakrabarti Goswami, Manoj Jaiswal, Puneet Mourya, Atul Singh.
2. 9th International Conference on Geomorphology (ICG), 2017 (New Delhi, India)
   “Effect of the Neotectonics on the Drainage System in the Piedmont of the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas, North Bengal, India.”
   K. K. Basumatary, A.K. Singh, M.K. Jaiswal
3. 35^th International Geological Congress, 2016 (Cape Town, South Africa)
   “Chronology of relict lake deposits in the upper Alakananda basin: Implication to paleoclimate and variability of chemical weathering intensity.”
   Jitendra K. Pattanaik, Atul K. Singh, Kalyani Nayak, Sunil Singh Shah, Prabhat Semwal,Manoj K. Jaiswal, Argha Banerjee, H. C. Nainwal, R. Shankar
4. 14^th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance (LED), 2013 (Montreal, Canada)
   “Luminescence chronology of alluvial fan in Eastern Himalayas,India: Implication to tectonics and climate.”
   M. Jaiswal, C. Goswami, A. Singh, J. Pattnaik
5. 36^th International Geological Congress (New Delhi, India)
   “Late Quaternary Evolution of Fluvial Terraces along the Tista River, Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya: Role of Climate and Tectonics”. (Abstract Number 4848)
   Atul Singh and Manoj Jaiswal
6. 36^th International Geological Congress (New Delhi, India)
   “Neo-tectonic indication in the Belan River basin, Marginal Ganga Alluvial Plains, Central India.” (Abstract Number 4047)
   Saurabh Singh, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Atul Kumar Singh.
7. 36^th International Geological Congress (New Delhi, India)
   “U-Pb Zircon geochronology using HR-ICPMS coupled with Femtosecond Laser; an assessment of degree of Down-Hole Fractionation at high spatial resolution.” (Abstract Number 6901).
   Deeksha Khandelwal, Atul Kumar Singh, Pankaj Kumar, P.K. Mukherjee, Ciprian Stremtan and S. Chopra.
8. 36^th International Geological Congress (New Delhi, India)
   “Active Tectonics of Sankosh River basin in Indo-Bhutan Himalayas: A Remote Sensing approach”. (Abstract Number 4831).
   Puneet Maurya, Arindam Guha, Belligraham Narazry, Atul Singh, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal.
9. 36^th International Geological Congress (New Delhi, India)
   “Luminescence Chronology of Fluvial records from Lower Kaveri Basin, Tamil Nadu, India.” (Abstract Number 2351).
   Mahadev Rawat, Diptimayee Behera, Atul Kumar Singh, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal.

WORKSHOP/TRAINING ATTENTED

1. Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Dating for Heritage and Forensic Sciences, May 2023 (Trieste, Italy)
2. A webinar on “Environmental Conservation: Analysis and Future Strategies” June 2021, (VBSPU, Jaunpur, U.P.)
3. e-Training on “Advanced Training on Quaternary Mapping” conducted by RTD, NR, GSITI, Lucknow from 25.08.2020 to 31.08.2020.
4. e-Training on “Basic Course on ArcGIS and its application for RMT” conducted by RTD, WR, GSITI, Jaipur from 03.08.2020 to 13.08.2020.
5. e-Training on “Art of Publication, Effective Writing and Presentation Skills in Earth Sciences” conducted by RTD, ER, GSITI, Kolkata from 29.07.2020 to 31.07.2020.
6. Certificate Course in Geospatial Technologies and Applications, Nov 07, 2016 – Jan 27, 2017. (NRSC, Hyderabad)
7. Workshop on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, April 21-23, 2016. (IUAC, New Delhi)
8. Acquaintance Program of Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, April 4, 2016 (Central University of Punjab, Bhatinda)
9. Two-day workshop on Remote Sensing of Earth and Atmosphere, March 1-2, 2016. (ISI, Kolkata)
10. 15th IIRS Outreach Program on "Basics of Remote Sensing, GIS & GNSS", Aug 10 - Nov 27, 2015. (IIRS, Dehradun)
11. National Workshop on Studies at Extreme Conditions of Pressure and Temperatures, March 25, 2015 (IISER, Kolkata)
12. A short course on “Ore Geology and Mineral Exploration”, Nov 15 – 21, 2010 (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Allahabad)

WORKSHOP/TRAINING CONDUCTED

1. Hands on training on LexsygSmart, MPCOST, Bhopal, Oct, 2017. (Bhopal, M.P.)
2. OSL analysis on LesygSmart Reader, April 04, 2019 – May 03, 2019. (JNU, New Delhi)
3. Workshop on Geochronology, IUAC, New Delhi, Oct 11-12, 2022.
4. Workshop on Geochronology, IUAC, New Delhi, Oct 3-4, 2023.